Method of treating the soil.



P. DIAZ, HIJO. "l METHOD 0F TBEATmG THB son..

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 16, `1908.

Patented Oct. 13,1908;

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ME'IHOID OF TBA'IDTG THE SOIL.

Specification of IettersV Patent.

Patented oct. 13, 190e.

Application filed April 15, 199g. .Serial No. 427,289.

To all 'whom 'it may co'acem:l

Be it known that I, Ponrnuo DIAZ, Hijo, a citizen of Mexico, resident of the city of Mexico, Republic'of Mexico, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methodsof Treating the Soil, of which the following is a specification. l n

This invention v.comprehends certain new and useful improvements in methods or processes for treatmg the soil, and has for its object an improved process of' this nature which consists in theutilization of electric currents of high tension and great frequency in order to effect the assimilation by the plants of the atmospheric nitrogen 'or azote.

With this object in view, the invention consists in an improved method which I shall now describe in detail, reference bein had, for a full understanding of the invention, to the following descriptionl and accompanying 'drawingg' in which latter one applicationof my invention is diagramnriatically'` illustrated. f

Figure 1 illustrates a field-to be treated by' the rocess; Fig. 2, two of the poles, ormasts emp oyed;l Fig. 3 a generator of Hertzian waves, and Fig. 4 the poles or electrodes of the generator and a parabolic reflector which is employed therewith.

'conductors with root-like wiresburied. in the l In carrying out my invention and in order to accomplish the ob'ectl aimed at, I place an apparatuswhich prod l c (Fi 4), in the center ofthe field to be .treate or very near the center, uponfany suitable support `or fulcrum. I. also provide a parabolic reflector b (see Figa), which may be inoved along the support, and it iste be understood that the wave producer may be adjusted by means ofyany suitable mechanism (not shown) on the focus of the parabolic relectorythe distance of the principal foci of the reflector may vbe measured by means of a scale or vermer, as indicated in,

Fi 4, for a purpose hereinafter described.

round the wave producing point, andat any desired intervals inthe fiel I place posts, such as those illustrated in Fig. 2. These posts are surmounted by metallic brushes, as shown, which are connected by means of ground. Tlicemsts may be independent of uces the I-Iertzian waves,

I i .each other or may be electrically connected,

as indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 2. It is designed that the electrical waves be concentratedon a certain post, and in order to accomplish this, thewave producer c should be placed the necessary` distancefrom the 'principal focus ofthe parabolic reflector b.. In order that the ,required-focus may be at the required point, the distance is computed by formulas well known to eX- perts in this line.

waves will be directed to and received by the conductors carried by thedilferent posts in the field, it being understood that the apparatus is irst-placed at or near the middle of the'fleld, as indicated at a in Fig. 1.

` From the foregoing description .in connec- ."VIt is to be understoodA that the apparatus l is shifted from point to point so that the tion with the accompanyin drawing, it will be seen that'I have invente a simple method of lintensifying the productive vproperties of the .soil by Hertzian waves of hightension and great frequency, the generator of which is' useful in connection with a parabolic re- Hector Z in order to concentrate the waves on the different posts. By this means, the

with the mineral substances of the Vvearth, such as potash, soda and lime, transforming them ilito nitrates which are capable of being easily assimilated by the plants. While atmospheric nitrogen or azote will combine the post arrangement alone may be used for cultivation by concentrating the atmospheric electricity on the field, it 1s clearl that thls p. elomenon is intensified by the propagar if.

tion of the waves before described.

claimed as new is: u l1. The herein vdescribed rocess of treatin'gields for the purpose o hastenmg or 1n# Having-thus described the' inventiomwhat f* -terisifying their productive properties, which f consists 1n lacing in the field undertreatment electrical conductors with terminals buried in the ground, and in also placing 1n thefield a producer of Hertzian waves of high tension and great frequency, and conce'r'rtrating the waves upon the different conductors. y -l vl l. 2.'The herein described process of treatingfields, which consists in placing on the ,e

field under treatment conductors having I In testimony whereof I aix my signature their terminals buried in the ground, and in in presence of two Witnesses.

also placinf upon the eld a producer of electric Waies of high tension and great fre PORFIRIO DIAZ HIJO' [L' S'] quency, in connection with a parabolic re- Witnesses:

Hector designed to concentrate the Waves D. E. THOMPSON,

upon any of the posts, WILL D. PITTMAN. 

